ABOUT THE COFFEE BREAK
Groups that are joining the Coffee Break:
Butterfly Warriors
Crazy Thyroid Lady
Steve JoEllie's Cancer Care Fund Thynet
Butterfly Hope network
GDCB
mythyroidireland
Thyroid Association New Zealand
Colorado Support Thyroid Group
Dear Thyroid
I AM TED
MedHelp (Thyroid)
Let me know if you are in. tdcoffeebreak@gmail.com
HOW IT ALL STATED
This website is for Graves' Disease patients, family and friends to unite in a Coffee Break for Graves' Disease. On Saturday August 22,2009, 127 people united for a "Coffee Break" at 10:00 am their time. The next Saturday more people joined the coffee break. The first coffee break for Graves' Disease had people from 13 states in the United States of America. People in Ireland, Australia, Canada and England also joined the coffee break. All this happened in a two week period.
So many have asked about the Graves' Disease Coffee Break, I have decided to start this website to share what people all over the world think about the coffee break. Please send us your pictures and stories about your coffee break for Graves' Disease. I will put them here to share.
I truly believe this is a positive thing for those of us with Graves' Disease. People who are alone have thanked me for starting the coffee break. They no longer feel alone because they know people all over the world are having coffee with them. Most of the people on this coffee break do have Graves' Disease, Thyroid Eye Disease or some other form of thyroid disease. There have also been family, friends, doctors and nurses that have joined the coffee break to give their support.
To join this coffee break you do NOT have to bike, run or even walk. Just sit and relax and enjoy a coffee break with us. How easy can that be. We all need a coffee break now and then. You can be alone with your coffee or invite someone to join you. Call someone , don't sit there alone. Write something on the forum and stay here with us if you like.
Please send emails to tdcoffeebreak@gmail.com
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MORE INFORMATION 1/16/20012
Some of you have asked about the random dates we have for a GD Coffee Break. So here is your answer.
As you know our first GD Coffee Break was in August. So, August 16 we will be having a BIG GD Coffee Break. And Continue to have one on August 16 of every year. Why August 16? Well, since I started the GD Coffee Break in August and my husbands birthday is on August 16, I picked that day. He has been my biggest supporter and given me the encouragement to help others understand what it is like. When ever I want to give up he tells me "Just take a break." Even when he got cancer and we almost lost him, he would not let me give up. Thank God , he has been cancer free for two years now. So in his honor I picked August 16.
We can have a GD Coffee Break when ever we want to. It is just nice to know when others are having one on a certain Day. Many of you just email me and ask me to have a GD Coffee Break with you. Just that small connection seems to help. Just knowing somebody somewhere is having a GD Coffee Break with you because they know you need it. I have never met (in person) anybody from Dear Thyroid or My Thyroid Ireland. But I have had a GD Coffee Break with Dear Thyroid and now in March I will have one with My Thyroid Ireland. If you want one on a certain day let me know. I will tell everybody to have a GD Coffee Break with you. We are not alone in this fight. Come on have a GD Coffee Break. You name the day and time and I will join you for a break that day........Well in Spirit any way,lol. Time for my GD Coffee Break....Join me????
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March 5, 2010
Denver is having their Coffee Break Co-Thyvent at Morse Park 10am-4pm, 8180 W. 20th Ave, Lakewood, Colorado. Free coffee, tea, hot chocolate and cookies. Prizes, cartoons to color and information on Thyroid Disease. Please R.S. V. P. to tdcoffeebreak@gmail.com
UPDATE FEBRUARY 1, 2010
Check out our event on Facebook
Graves' Disease Coffee Break
Event................................Coffee Break Co-Thyvent
March 20, 2010 there will be our second "Coffee Break". We are teaming up with "Dear Thyroid" a thyroid literary site, for a meet up. It will be a "Coffee Break Co-Thyvent". Hopeful you all will get together with family and friends and have your own "Coffee Break Co-Thyvent" on this day. Let's let the world know we are here and we are not hiding our Thyroid Disease any more. We had 127 people have a coffee break in August of last year. We can beat that. We did that in 2 weeks. We have 48 days to set up a "Coffee Break
Co-Thyvent"
Butterfly Warriors
Crazy Thyroid Lady
Steve JoEllie's Cancer Care Fund Thynet
Butterfly Hope network
GDCB
mythyroidireland
Thyroid Association New Zealand
Colorado Support Thyroid Group
Dear Thyroid
I AM TED
MedHelp (Thyroid)
Let me know if you are in. tdcoffeebreak@gmail.com
HOW IT ALL STATED
This website is for Graves' Disease patients, family and friends to unite in a Coffee Break for Graves' Disease. On Saturday August 22,2009, 127 people united for a "Coffee Break" at 10:00 am their time. The next Saturday more people joined the coffee break. The first coffee break for Graves' Disease had people from 13 states in the United States of America. People in Ireland, Australia, Canada and England also joined the coffee break. All this happened in a two week period.
So many have asked about the Graves' Disease Coffee Break, I have decided to start this website to share what people all over the world think about the coffee break. Please send us your pictures and stories about your coffee break for Graves' Disease. I will put them here to share.
I truly believe this is a positive thing for those of us with Graves' Disease. People who are alone have thanked me for starting the coffee break. They no longer feel alone because they know people all over the world are having coffee with them. Most of the people on this coffee break do have Graves' Disease, Thyroid Eye Disease or some other form of thyroid disease. There have also been family, friends, doctors and nurses that have joined the coffee break to give their support.
To join this coffee break you do NOT have to bike, run or even walk. Just sit and relax and enjoy a coffee break with us. How easy can that be. We all need a coffee break now and then. You can be alone with your coffee or invite someone to join you. Call someone , don't sit there alone. Write something on the forum and stay here with us if you like.
Please send emails to tdcoffeebreak@gmail.com
***************************************************
MORE INFORMATION 1/16/20012
Some of you have asked about the random dates we have for a GD Coffee Break. So here is your answer.
As you know our first GD Coffee Break was in August. So, August 16 we will be having a BIG GD Coffee Break. And Continue to have one on August 16 of every year. Why August 16? Well, since I started the GD Coffee Break in August and my husbands birthday is on August 16, I picked that day. He has been my biggest supporter and given me the encouragement to help others understand what it is like. When ever I want to give up he tells me "Just take a break." Even when he got cancer and we almost lost him, he would not let me give up. Thank God , he has been cancer free for two years now. So in his honor I picked August 16.
We can have a GD Coffee Break when ever we want to. It is just nice to know when others are having one on a certain Day. Many of you just email me and ask me to have a GD Coffee Break with you. Just that small connection seems to help. Just knowing somebody somewhere is having a GD Coffee Break with you because they know you need it. I have never met (in person) anybody from Dear Thyroid or My Thyroid Ireland. But I have had a GD Coffee Break with Dear Thyroid and now in March I will have one with My Thyroid Ireland. If you want one on a certain day let me know. I will tell everybody to have a GD Coffee Break with you. We are not alone in this fight. Come on have a GD Coffee Break. You name the day and time and I will join you for a break that day........Well in Spirit any way,lol. Time for my GD Coffee Break....Join me????
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March 5, 2010
Denver is having their Coffee Break Co-Thyvent at Morse Park 10am-4pm, 8180 W. 20th Ave, Lakewood, Colorado. Free coffee, tea, hot chocolate and cookies. Prizes, cartoons to color and information on Thyroid Disease. Please R.S. V. P. to tdcoffeebreak@gmail.com
UPDATE FEBRUARY 1, 2010
Check out our event on Facebook
Graves' Disease Coffee Break
Event................................Coffee Break Co-Thyvent
March 20, 2010 there will be our second "Coffee Break". We are teaming up with "Dear Thyroid" a thyroid literary site, for a meet up. It will be a "Coffee Break Co-Thyvent". Hopeful you all will get together with family and friends and have your own "Coffee Break Co-Thyvent" on this day. Let's let the world know we are here and we are not hiding our Thyroid Disease any more. We had 127 people have a coffee break in August of last year. We can beat that. We did that in 2 weeks. We have 48 days to set up a "Coffee Break
Co-Thyvent"
Many of you think I should use my Chili GD Coffee Drinker for my logo. Works for me. I would appreciate any feed back you have.
Remember January is Thyroid Awareness month.
My Thyroid Support Ireland is having a GD Coffee Break March 17. Please join us. Read more about it in my blog for 1-6-2012. Please let us know what you will be doing for the GD Coffee Break. Also any toast you may have for us to share.
I will be updating links soon. Stay tuned and visit often. You never know what you will find here.
Remember I am not a doctor and will not answer medical questions. I will tell you what I have learned over the years with my Graves' Disease and Thyroid Eye Disease. I will try to find out where you can get the answers you need. There is enough info out there for you. I am here to give you a GD Coffee Break and maybe make you smile or say..."Hummmm I thought I was the only one."
Hay how about that new Flag counter. I love it. But, had to start from 0. We lost the count at 1888. Not to shabby.
Remember January is Thyroid Awareness month.
My Thyroid Support Ireland is having a GD Coffee Break March 17. Please join us. Read more about it in my blog for 1-6-2012. Please let us know what you will be doing for the GD Coffee Break. Also any toast you may have for us to share.
I will be updating links soon. Stay tuned and visit often. You never know what you will find here.
Remember I am not a doctor and will not answer medical questions. I will tell you what I have learned over the years with my Graves' Disease and Thyroid Eye Disease. I will try to find out where you can get the answers you need. There is enough info out there for you. I am here to give you a GD Coffee Break and maybe make you smile or say..."Hummmm I thought I was the only one."
Hay how about that new Flag counter. I love it. But, had to start from 0. We lost the count at 1888. Not to shabby.
January is THYROID AWARENESS MONTH
Start the new year right and get in the habit of checking your thyroid.
Did you know there is a Thyroid Awareness Campaign going on. New paisley blue ribbons. Both men and women can relate to. Go to www.ThyroidAwareness.com For more information. Check that neck.
UPDATE
UPDATE: We lost the count at 512 from January 6, 2012 to January 24,2012 with 11 Flags. Starting all over
I will be updating this site as I come across things I think might be of interest to you. If you find something that you think we may find interesting, please email me and let me know. We all surf the net for information about the thyroid, Graves' Disease or TED. I would like this place to be a nice comfortable place to come and relax. There will be serious information here and there will be things just to make you smile. I think it is very important to smile and laugh. Some of us find that smiling and laughing is far to few. We can NOT let this disease rule our life. We only get one life to live. We may not be happy with what we are getting from it right now. That is not reason for us to give up and just let this disease control us. I am taking my life back and I am going to enjoy a nice peaceful cup of coffee and my Graves' Disease can just sit in the corner till I feel like acknowledging it is still there. Graves' Disease can just wait while I finish my coffee.
I will be updating this site as I come across things I think might be of interest to you. If you find something that you think we may find interesting, please email me and let me know. We all surf the net for information about the thyroid, Graves' Disease or TED. I would like this place to be a nice comfortable place to come and relax. There will be serious information here and there will be things just to make you smile. I think it is very important to smile and laugh. Some of us find that smiling and laughing is far to few. We can NOT let this disease rule our life. We only get one life to live. We may not be happy with what we are getting from it right now. That is not reason for us to give up and just let this disease control us. I am taking my life back and I am going to enjoy a nice peaceful cup of coffee and my Graves' Disease can just sit in the corner till I feel like acknowledging it is still there. Graves' Disease can just wait while I finish my coffee.
